The ecosystem response to urban transformation: the impact of rapid urbanisation on the social demographics of ecologically-significant insect species

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项目编号	NE/N000951/1
	The ecosystem response to urban transformation: the impact of rapid urbanisation on the social demographics of ecologically-significant insect species
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主持机构	University of Bristol
项目开始年	2015
	2015
项目结束日期	2016-12-31
资助机构	UK-NERC
项目类别	Research Grant
国家	英国
语种	英语
英文摘要	Landscapes across the world are undergoing rapid urbanisation. We will investigate the role of urban living in the life of an ecologically prominent social insect, wasps of the genus Polistes in Brazil. Do urbanised landscapes host higher densities of colonies? Does life in artificial environments recalibrate the demographics of social species? Does this have implications for social behaviour? Is an urbanised world a new ecological context to which social behaviour must adapt? Are ancestral evolutionary strategies helped or hindered by the transition to urbanisation? We will address fascinating questions such as these through thorough behavioural analyses of Brazil's polistine wasps, using a host of cutting-edge technologies - including advanced sociogenomics (the study of social behaviour and the genome) and intricate radio-tagging of wasps in the wild.
来源学科分类	Natural Environment Research
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/85426
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	[unavailable].The ecosystem response to urban transformation: the impact of rapid urbanisation on the social demographics of ecologically-significant insect species.2015.